| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got thr... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [h... | Robert Southey | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work... | Thomas Carlyle | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."' | Mary Berry | Roscoe | [unidentified pamphlet] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medi... | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...' | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | William Roscoe | [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |